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Hi Ranchers,
I have planned to learn servlets and java in Netbeans IDE( I used netbeans for SCJP learning). I heard that netbeans will start tomcat by itself. No need to install tomcat seperately. Can anyone please help me how to set the classpath. I already set in command prompt like

C:\java>set CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\netbeans-4.1\enterprise1\jakarta-tomcat
-5.5.7\server\lib\servlet.jar

But the above one compiled well but when I executed it didn't give result.
Please help me in classpath setting in netbeans.
[ February 07, 2008: Message edited by: Shiva Mohan ]

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I don't think you have to set a classpath like that if you are running Tomcat from NetBeans.

Can you be more specific than "it didn't give result"? What DO you get?
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Hi Marc,

Thanks for the reply. sorry and currently,I am getting the error message
javax.servlet doesnot exist when I tried to run the program at IDE.

I am trying to run the below program

How would I make sure netbeans tomcat is working properly.How to statrt,stop or restart tomcat engine in netbeans IDE? Please help.

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1) Make sure you've created a Web Project (File>New Project>Web>Web Application). The wizard will let you choose an instance of Tomcat.
2) Do not put your code in the default package. This is generally bad practice and NetBeans especially hates it.
3) Get rid of the main method in your Servlet.
4) service() isn't the best method to override. doGet() would be more appropriate here. Don't worry about changing until after you get this working.
5) You need to map the Servlet in your web.xml. If you used the NetBeans wizard to create the Servlet, it will automatically create this mapping for you. (File>New File>Web>Servlet)
6. To start Tomcat, simply click the Run Main Project "play button" at the top or press F6. The build and Tomcat startup should display in your console window at the bottom. It will also automatically open a browser window pointing to the welcome page (index.jsp if you created your project with the wizard), which you my add Main to the end of the URL. There you'll see your Hello World

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Thanks a lot Marc. That really helped to clear most of my doubts. But I have got the following error.
Also, I don't understand step 5. But you told me that will create automatically by netbeans. Did you mean,configuration files folder that has web.xml
file and when I openened that that showed Display name,Describtion,session timm out. Do I need to set anything here.
Please help on this one too.

HTTP Status 404 - /Hello/HelloWorld

type Status report
message /Hello/HelloWorld
description The requested resource (/Hello/HelloWorld) is not available

My Updated coding is

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I don't understand step 5.

You need to map your servlet to a URL. In web.xml, you need the following:

Marc is telling you that if you created the servlet using Netbeans' wizard (which you probably have not), this will be done automatically.

And for some personal comments

Main is an awful name for a servlet

You should put your servlet in a package to avoid troubles

(If this discussion goes on about how to use Netbeans, it will be moved to the IDE forum)
[ February 07, 2008: Message edited by: Christophe Verre ]

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